The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
Our discussion groups meet on video live every weekday, below is this week’s schedule. See full calendar.
2 PM ET AI Field Notes
Hosted by Dan Cooney & Jessica Anderson
A collaborative space for sensemakers to share insights, experiments, and questions related to their experiences with AI, fostering skill growth and documentation of evolving patterns in the field.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Change
Hosted by Skipper Chong Warson & Laura Chance
A curious group exploring the complexities of change and develops frameworks for effectively creating, embracing, or managing it across various scales and domains.
Closed for Al-hijra
2 PM ET Making Sense of Other Humans
Hosted by Erin Rodat-Savla & Karen Brothers
A brave group focused on understanding and improving teamwork dynamics, navigating conflicts, and fostering productive relationships without burnout.
Closed for Juneteenth
What’s going on?
Week of June 15, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week the Sensemakers Club held four sessions in addition to our monthly Beginner’s session. The Analog Leap: Sketching to Expand Your Sensemaking (June 9) wrapped up its inaugural season with a hands-on exercise in intuitive mark-making and the question of how analog creative practice can unlock new ways of seeing. Design Jam (June 10) turned the group's attention inward, asking members to help define what kinds of resources the club shares — and whether a more intentional, curated system for surfacing those resources is worth building. Making Sense of Facilitation (June 11) held a send-off and ask-me-anything session for outgoing co-facilitators Shelby and Alan, covering everything from how to recognize when you're facilitating without knowing it, to navigating misaligned expectations and knowing when to walk away. Making Sense of Money (June 12) dove into the deeply personal terrain of where to put your money and why, with members sharing their actual histories — wins, regrets, guilt, and improvised strategies alike.
Themes from last week:
- The Emotional Undercurrent Beneath Practical Decisions
- The Tension Between Exploration and Convergence
- Knowing When to Let Go and When to Stay With It